Hokudai School Festival

Today is the first day of the Hokudai (my university) school festival. That means there are students dressed in strange outfits selling strange food. There are also rooms with huge model railways (the model railway club), manga drawing exhibits (the manga drawing club), rooms with live music (various music clubs of the university), and much more.

Big sized Jenga game

I had lunch at the festival booths. There are several kilometers of booths, so you cannot try all the food, but we found some interesting things.

"Greek style" yogurt pairfait

There was a guy in a white uniform trying to get people to try out the air guns of the air gun club. It looked funny when he in his captains uniform managed to get a group of high school girls in sailor uniforms to gather around.

I was told by a cute girl that sold me something called "Greek style yogurt parfait" that she had seen me perform magic in our magic bar. I was told by my Greek colleague that he has neither seen nor heard of anything even remotely similar to a yogurt parfait in Greece. But what does he know, anyway?

The agricultural department said that all the ingredients in this pizza were "made in Hokudai" (made at the experimental fields of our university). The pizza was great.

Deer sausage and horse sausage

Curry filled crepe

This was called a "hamburger" but was more like a chicken sandwich 

This was called "tacos" but was more like a very spicy spring roll

This was called tacos, and was pretty much that

Fish shaped sweet waffle filled with pizza toppings (cheese, tomato, etc.)

Grilled onigiri with miso and meat

Magic rehearsal

Every year, the magician club of our university has a "magic cafe" at the school festival. There you can see stage magic and table magic. I used to perform there, but now I have been retired (you can only be in the club for 3 years). I did go to see the rehearsals of the new people, though. Some of them seemed fine, some still needed more work.

School festival

Notice the student in the background dressed up in a home made (from A4 papers taped together) Totoro suit!

Today was the first day of the school festival of our university. The school festival sees lots of students serving lots of strange food, so we usually go to the festival area for lunch during the festival days. Today I had a wide selection of strange but good food.

The students also dress funnily, organize bizarre games, play music, perform all kinds of things, and do many other things during the festival.

Something that was similar to a pancake or crepe, filled with pizza sauce and cheese.

This is a tai-yaki waffle with melted cheese and tuna inside.

This is a very very tiny hot dog.

Here is some deep fried ice cream.

More deep fried ice cream.

Colorful cakes.

Alligator and ostrich meat.

Veterinarians, funny shoes, strange food

The cute depictions of what animals you can eat were also good.

Today was the first day of the school festival at our university. The festival consists of the students dressing up in funny clothes, selling strange food, playing music, organizing games, etc.

The dark meat in the bottom of the picture is ostrich. The parts with toothpicks in them are alligator.

The best food is usually provided by the veterinarian department. The veterinary students always sell food based on some strange animal. This year they sold deep fried alligator meat and deep fried ostrich meat.

The staff also had funny shoes.